just a little late v-day post

ok so i know that v-day has come and gone but i'm really trying to post again!  apparently having a baby and then being pregnant with a baby so close has left me with barely enough energy to either sew and craft or post- not both.  but i'm working on it!  i've really enjoyed getting back into my craft room and sewing again.  i've done lots of projects lately and will slowly start trying to post again.  but no promises :)

so to start off the catch up, lets start with the v-day things.  some fun cupcakes to pass out!  we were going to have a whole little v-day party for m's friends but thanks to the all the germs going around, all of us moms and kids were too sick!  but we did get the cute little cupcakes made and dropped off for my visiting teaching.

and then next up was a new cute little pink dress for miss m.  she was so excited to see me making her a dress- especially out of her uncles old shirt!  she loves him and loved that the shirt was his.  so i used this tutorial for the base of the shirt and then just did my own thing when it came time for the sleeves and sewed ties onto it for the waist band knowing that m would love them.

the funny thing was that i was rushing to sew it for her and ended up sewing both sleeves on backwards AND inside out!  i almost just threw it away but instead set it aside for a few hours and then just unpicked the seams and re attached them correctly!  she was so excited and loves wearing it.  its a little on the big side so i think it'll be cuter in a year with leggings but i still love seeing her wear it.

so excited when she woke up in the morning and saw that it was finished!

ok so i've started on the catch up.  many more posts to come!  slowly...

winner!

and we have our winner!  thanks to all that entered but the winner is randi.  i've emailed you all the instructions.  thanks everyone!

oh and guess what?  i've actually crafted- just a little bit- this week.  i'll be posted some fun stuff soon...  once its finished!

My Memories Suite GIVEAWAY!

Happy New Year!  Wow...  it's been awhile since I've checked in.  But there is a reason!

Yep!  Thats right!  Our family is growing again.  Baby 3 is due next summer and as I'm now entering the 2nd trimester, I'm slowly beginning to feel human again!  So I will try to check in more frequently but as life is still on the crazy side, no promises!!

But what do you say we start the new year off with a bang?  How about a giveaway?!

I have had the My Memories Suite for a bit now and have loved playing with it!  You are able to do all of the scrapbooking, photo cards, and such as you can with the bigger programs but its much much cheaper and so easy to use!  1 feature that I love about it is that all the downloads you buy (or even the free downloads) from their website, are right there in your program!  It is so easy to access your papers, embellishments, etc. right there in the program.  No trying to remember where they were saved to.  And I need all the help I can get with remembering these days!

So do you want to try it out for your self?  Well we will have 1 lucky winner who wins there own My Memories Suite.  Sweet!  If not, you can still choose to buy it for yourself with this code (STMMMS49041) that will give you $10 off of the MyMemories Suite and a $10 credit for downloads.  Awesome!

So a few ways to enter...

1- mandatory- Go check out their website and then come back leaving me a comment on your favorite digital pack- paper, embellishments, etc.

2- check them out on facebook and leave me a comment letting me know you liked them.

3- check out their blog and then leave me a comment letting me know you are a follower.

4- and then just for fun, leave me a comment with your favorite part about the past holidays!  treats, gifts, games, etc...

This giveaway will run until January 15th and I'll announce the winner soon after!  Good luck!!

b family pictures

so this past weekend, i was lucky enough to do a photoshoot with one of my favorite families.  seriously love them.  i could just eat these boys up!  and hello- gorgeous mama!!  and she is as beautiful inside as she it out.  thanks b fam!

party like it's your birthday!

party party!!  so a couple weeks before m's birthday, i asked her what she wanted to do for her party.  she told me she wanted- friends, cupcakes, and balloons.  well sweet!  i assumed she'd want something princess but i took the balloon theme and just ran with it.  she was so excited!!

the polka dot themed food:

oreo lollipops

cheese circles and crackers- to try and counter balance the sugar :)

marshmallows, grapes, and donut holes- from our favorite local donut shop

cupcakes with lollipops for the dots

for drinks, i labeled the waterbottles so that names could easily be written onto the the paper so they didn't get confused with who's was who's

l was so content just chilling and taking it all in...

now for the games:

as they came, they got to make candy necklaces!  they ended up being more bracelets because it was a little harder than i anticipated but they still loved it.

pin the dot on the crown

a pinata that my awesome friend leah helped me make.  and this was great because all the halloween candy is gone from the house!  well except for what i wanted to keep :)

then came the balloons!  my hubby was so sweet and helped me blow up every balloon out of a bag of 72 the night before.  and he blew up more than i did and they were way bigger than mine!  ha!  so the plan was to tape and hang them up all around outside for the decorations but it was a little windy and for every 3 i would hang up, 2 would pop.  and this was before it even started!  so i just left them inside and was going to bring them all out to let the kids pop them in the yard but again- it was windy and didn't want the balloons to just blow everywhere into our neighbors yards.  so for the last game, the kids just came into our front room and popped all the balloons inside!

it got really noisy really quick so we didn't pop quite all of them...

we then sang happy birthday and tried to light a candle and ate food!

it was a fun party, pretty simple and low-key, and i'm so grateful for all our friends here that came and helped us celebrate m's birthday.  i still can't believe she is 3!

happy halloween!

Hope you have a fun and safe holiday!  Happy Halloween!!

yummy mummy pizza!

Ok wow- I'm a lame blogger lately!  We've been busy and traveling (we made it out of Cancun just before the hurricane hit and they shut down the airport.  So glad to be home with my babies!)  and just busy enjoying life!  But here is a fun little Halloween treat I wanted to share with ya'll.  I made these a couple of weeks ago for M and her friends.  They were a huge hit!  And super easy for me :)  Now the eyes are supposed to be olives but I didn't have any...  so I improvised and used chocolate chips.  I think the girls loved those even more.  Check it out here and have a fun weekend!

snow white!

a couple weeks ago, m wanted to be cinderella for halloween.  and then nana sent her a BYU cheerleader costume so she then wanted to be that.  then she wanted me to make her a belle dress.  and then i went out of town.  when i flew into the orlando airport, there was a statue of snow white.  i took a picture next to it and emailed it to my husband to show m while i was gone.  this was it:

after that, m changed her mind again and wanted to be snow white.  so thinking she would change her mind, i asked her again the next day what she wanted to be.  she told me, "mom, i tell you other day.  i want be snow white."  before making the costume yesterday afternoon, i asked her again.  she told me then, "mom.  i tell you five times.  i want be snow white!"  well there you have it folks.  i guess this girl really wants to be snow white!

so when thinking about her costume, i decided that i wanted something easy, comfortable, wearable, and machine washable.  so i used some knits that i had on hand- the red and blue are old t-shirts of mine actually.  i have a feeling this will be worn alot!!

(and in case you were wondering, yes that is a little black eye.  she tripped over a big bucket of toys while playing with some friends...  so my daughter!)

costume change!

we've had a request for a different halloween costume around here from little miss m.  any guesses what i'm working on this afternoon?

glazed pumpkin pull apart bread

Hey everyone!  So remember last week when I said that I'd be back with some delish fall recipes?  Well it's time!  I made a delish Glazed Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread this past weekend and oh.my.  So if you would like to see it- go check out my guest post over at Crafty Critique.  Now I'm off for a girls trip with my sisters and mom so I'll see ya'll back here next week!

(I do have lots of tutorials and recipes and fun projects to share...  next week I'll start catching up- promise!)